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Saudi arabia, their currency is in trouble. their economy is in trouble. so it'll be interesting to see whether the new fault lines here are as fawaz put it, really looking to change the middle east or whether we're going to see a doubling down of really the kinds of fault lines that don't move societies forward, don't change the autocratic nature of the middle east. >> stay with us. we will be back. more on saudi arabia and the united states when we come back. delicious pasta marinara. but birds eye made it from zucchini. mmm... mashed potatoes...and rice! but made from cauliflower. looks lik...

So on. literally there's only $4 billion in actual contracts. so we need to bear that in mind. they need us much more than we need them. there's no question about that. we are their ultimate protecters against the enemy that we share in common which is iran. and our biggest problem there is the saudis are one of two pillars that trump has based his strategy against iran on. the other one being israel. and the problem with mbs is that even though he wants to be our strategic partner against iran -- or i'll put it the other way. he needs us. when we work with him against iran, he manages to do t...

That establishment. >> when studied the breakdown of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s and 80s. he noted a schism in the ruling elite was almost always the precursor to a breakdown of a regime. saudi arabia has maintained stability historically because it was really a patronage state, not a police state. the kingdom has typically dealt with its critics and dissenters by buying them off. mostly in the case of hard-line clerics. yet mbs appears to be changing the model from patronage to police state. he has mixed economic, social, and religious reforms with an ever tighter grip on power shaking...

Into an international cause? i will talk to the post's editorial editor. and do you drive a pickup or a prius? eat iceberg or kale? drink light beer or chardonnay? well, your answers to those questions and more tell researchers a lot about your politics. how do you score? find out. but first, here's my take. the barbaric murder of jamal khashoggi tells us something important about saudi arabia. but it also tells us something important about america. first saudi. as has often been noted khashoggi used to be part of the saudi establishment. although not a member of the house, he was well born an...

With canada. and the kind of instability that mbs is creating a counter to the interest of the united states and to the interest of the saudis and the u.s./saudi alliance. and, you know, if people who believe in having this alliance should want a regime that u.s. businesses and other governments can feel comfortable dealing with, not a regime that feels it can do something like this. and if i could just say one more thing, you know, you showed the columns of jamal's we've posted and some of the editorials. i just want to say we've had an incredible response. millions of readers in both english...